Mitch Bittens
@bamcis.bsky.social
unconditional struggle for a better world
Reads/listens: Cool Zone Media (h/t Weird Little Guys), Kathleen Belew, Tal Lavin, JM Berger, Seamus Hughes, Marc Sageman, Spencer Sunshine, LCRW, so much more but you get the idea.
Reads/listens: Cool Zone Media (h/t Weird Little Guys), Kathleen Belew, Tal Lavin, JM Berger, Seamus Hughes, Marc Sageman, Spencer Sunshine, LCRW, so much more but you get the idea.
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You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses?
People
People
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
February 9, 2026 at 6:46 PM
You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses?
People
People
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
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these conditions are horrifying. this is an amazing story of community organizing strategy and commitment, as well as another example of the criminalization of mutual aid @lataco.bsky.social
Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...
lataco.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:11 AM
these conditions are horrifying. this is an amazing story of community organizing strategy and commitment, as well as another example of the criminalization of mutual aid @lataco.bsky.social
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That feeling when you, a terrorism and extremism scholar, see documentary evidence that shows moot met with Jeffery Epstein on the same day /pol was launched:
January 31, 2026 at 3:43 AM
That feeling when you, a terrorism and extremism scholar, see documentary evidence that shows moot met with Jeffery Epstein on the same day /pol was launched:
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how the fuck you gonna reform a children’s concentration camp asshole
Anadith Danay Reyes Álvarez died in government custody.
She had sickle cell and congenital heart disease but couldn’t access timely and adequate medical care.
We need to reform immigration detention.
She had sickle cell and congenital heart disease but couldn’t access timely and adequate medical care.
We need to reform immigration detention.
January 28, 2026 at 5:30 AM
how the fuck you gonna reform a children’s concentration camp asshole
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Amid growing calls for the abolition of ICE, Rep. Delia Ramirez is calling for the entire DHS to be dismantled. Highlighting how much experience the officers who killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti had, Ramirez said, “DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity.”
House Democrat Says Abolishing ICE Isn’t Enough — DHS Must Go, Too
“The problem isn’t ‘training.’ DHS was built to violate our rights,” said Rep. Delia C. Ramirez.
truthout.org
January 27, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Amid growing calls for the abolition of ICE, Rep. Delia Ramirez is calling for the entire DHS to be dismantled. Highlighting how much experience the officers who killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti had, Ramirez said, “DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity.”
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
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Abolish ICE is not enough.
Stern words for Greg Bovino or Kristi Noem is not enough.
We need prosecutions and trials.
Anything short of this position fails to address the gravity of this moment.
Stern words for Greg Bovino or Kristi Noem is not enough.
We need prosecutions and trials.
Anything short of this position fails to address the gravity of this moment.
January 26, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Abolish ICE is not enough.
Stern words for Greg Bovino or Kristi Noem is not enough.
We need prosecutions and trials.
Anything short of this position fails to address the gravity of this moment.
Stern words for Greg Bovino or Kristi Noem is not enough.
We need prosecutions and trials.
Anything short of this position fails to address the gravity of this moment.
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BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.
January 25, 2026 at 2:32 AM
BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.
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These guys are not the Freikorps. ICE are unemployable, psychotic losers vested with the power to live out violent fantasies. They are ghoulish people but only have a superiority of arms, not organization.
January 25, 2026 at 2:53 AM
These guys are not the Freikorps. ICE are unemployable, psychotic losers vested with the power to live out violent fantasies. They are ghoulish people but only have a superiority of arms, not organization.
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Alex Pretti was an intensive care nurse in the Veterans Administration Health Care system.
“He felt that doing the protesting was a way to express his care for others,” his dad said.
#AbolishICE
#ICEOutOfMinnesota
#ProtectNurses
#HoldHisKillersAccountable
“He felt that doing the protesting was a way to express his care for others,” his dad said.
#AbolishICE
#ICEOutOfMinnesota
#ProtectNurses
#HoldHisKillersAccountable
January 24, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Alex Pretti was an intensive care nurse in the Veterans Administration Health Care system.
“He felt that doing the protesting was a way to express his care for others,” his dad said.
#AbolishICE
#ICEOutOfMinnesota
#ProtectNurses
#HoldHisKillersAccountable
“He felt that doing the protesting was a way to express his care for others,” his dad said.
#AbolishICE
#ICEOutOfMinnesota
#ProtectNurses
#HoldHisKillersAccountable
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It’s important not to distinguish between citizens and noncitizens when talking about ICE abductions/abuses/killings.
I know you don’t mean to, but that framing creates implicit permission — the kind you hear when folks say “they even killed a white lady.”
IT’S 👏🏽 ALL 👏🏽 EVIL 👏🏽 REGARDLESS OF STATUS
I know you don’t mean to, but that framing creates implicit permission — the kind you hear when folks say “they even killed a white lady.”
IT’S 👏🏽 ALL 👏🏽 EVIL 👏🏽 REGARDLESS OF STATUS
January 22, 2026 at 11:26 PM
It’s important not to distinguish between citizens and noncitizens when talking about ICE abductions/abuses/killings.
I know you don’t mean to, but that framing creates implicit permission — the kind you hear when folks say “they even killed a white lady.”
IT’S 👏🏽 ALL 👏🏽 EVIL 👏🏽 REGARDLESS OF STATUS
I know you don’t mean to, but that framing creates implicit permission — the kind you hear when folks say “they even killed a white lady.”
IT’S 👏🏽 ALL 👏🏽 EVIL 👏🏽 REGARDLESS OF STATUS
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At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM
At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.
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they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
January 24, 2026 at 7:48 PM
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
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he knows that we know he's lying. he's telling us we're all terrorists to him. he's telling us that to dissent is now a capital crime. he's telling us they'll shoot us, too, and they'll say we deserved it.
January 24, 2026 at 8:08 PM
he knows that we know he's lying. he's telling us we're all terrorists to him. he's telling us that to dissent is now a capital crime. he's telling us they'll shoot us, too, and they'll say we deserved it.
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Seth Moulton is calling for ICE to be prosecuted in no uncertain terms.
This is becoming a foundational political agreement for anyone seeing to oppose the regime. We need the broadest possible coalition all united about the necessity of caging these fucking monsters.
This is becoming a foundational political agreement for anyone seeing to oppose the regime. We need the broadest possible coalition all united about the necessity of caging these fucking monsters.
January 24, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Seth Moulton is calling for ICE to be prosecuted in no uncertain terms.
This is becoming a foundational political agreement for anyone seeing to oppose the regime. We need the broadest possible coalition all united about the necessity of caging these fucking monsters.
This is becoming a foundational political agreement for anyone seeing to oppose the regime. We need the broadest possible coalition all united about the necessity of caging these fucking monsters.
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ICE is sending these kids to the concentration camp in Dilley, Texas, where they're preparing to have so many children that they're opening a new school there. They're actively hiring teachers now. I reported on it last month. We have to get people out of there.
January 23, 2026 at 1:27 PM
ICE is sending these kids to the concentration camp in Dilley, Texas, where they're preparing to have so many children that they're opening a new school there. They're actively hiring teachers now. I reported on it last month. We have to get people out of there.
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no matter how hard Greg Bovino tries to exude rugged masculinity he always comes off like Don Knotts in a Portlandia sketch
January 23, 2026 at 2:41 AM
no matter how hard Greg Bovino tries to exude rugged masculinity he always comes off like Don Knotts in a Portlandia sketch
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Friend sent this to me today. It’s in Seattle. Hadn’t seen it on here yet so I figured I’d share.
January 22, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Friend sent this to me today. It’s in Seattle. Hadn’t seen it on here yet so I figured I’d share.
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New— I wrote about the amazing success of the Greg Bovino Bitch Fund Benefiting Immigrant Rights in Minnesota (more than $18k raised just from bluesky!!!), how people far and wide are inspired by the fighting spirit, and why I feel it’s my duty as a journalist to use my platform for material change:
Calling Greg Bovino a "b*tch" raises thousands for Minn. immigrant rights
Spearheaded by The Handbasket, $18k+ in donations were made to spite the CBP commander.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 22, 2026 at 2:42 AM
New— I wrote about the amazing success of the Greg Bovino Bitch Fund Benefiting Immigrant Rights in Minnesota (more than $18k raised just from bluesky!!!), how people far and wide are inspired by the fighting spirit, and why I feel it’s my duty as a journalist to use my platform for material change:
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This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 6:52 PM
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
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"Let’s be clear: There is a US city living under occupation by fascist presidential secret police right now."
Read @vermontgmg.bsky.social on the occupation of Minneapolis
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...
Read @vermontgmg.bsky.social on the occupation of Minneapolis
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...
"ICE 101" — How Trump changed ICE and CBP into a fascist secret police
ICE and CBP are fatally flawed products of the post-9/11 War on Terror — now Trump has weaponized those very flaws to occupy America.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
January 20, 2026 at 4:05 PM
"Let’s be clear: There is a US city living under occupation by fascist presidential secret police right now."
Read @vermontgmg.bsky.social on the occupation of Minneapolis
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...
Read @vermontgmg.bsky.social on the occupation of Minneapolis
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...
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ICE Raids Children's Hospital in Virginia 🤬
January 18, 2026 at 7:23 PM
ICE Raids Children's Hospital in Virginia 🤬
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The absolute accuracy of this.
January 18, 2026 at 10:23 PM
The absolute accuracy of this.
Worth a listen every week, but particularly in this moment.
Cops & Klan
pca.st
January 18, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Worth a listen every week, but particularly in this moment.